Oh I’d like to read that greyduster.
She was an amazing woman and such a fascinating, eccentric family.
Years ago I read a book about her sister Unity and her dalliance with Hitler, can’t remember what it was called now.
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Here it is then, GN very own 50 books a year thead, or as the title suggest for those who think that may be a tad too many for them, whatever your personal best may be after a culmination of reading for a year. Don't be daunted by the "50" benchmark, as this is the first thread of its kind, it is experimental and will evolve as it progresses.
So to recap, start off with what you are reading now, or with a new book. How often you come to the thread is up to the individual. Over on MN, some seem to up date every so often with the next few they've read. If you feel so inclined post a review or a synopsis of the book. Definitely share if it's something you've loved......or hated, or shelved 
Reading material is not restricted to fiction, it can be anything, factual, audio, childrens, The Hungry Caterpillar or the like even!, such books count towards the 50, so who knows, you could be at that figure by the end of today 
At the end of the year post your complete list with your best read in bold, worst in italics and mention your top five, or top book if you've just read five 
Here's wishing those who partake a great reading year ahead in 2019.
Should check out some of these, probably your list will exceed the mark 100...... :p
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My eighth book is Love in an English Garden by Victoria Connelly. It's exactly as you might imagine a book of that title to be!
My Book no 7 is Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Laurence Durrell. It's a memoir of his time living in Cyprus after WW2 and is perfect for this chilly weather. It's a fascinating mix of politics (Cyprus wanting to unite with Greece) and local characters and very funny episodes such as claiming to his neighbours that his brother Gerald died at the Battle of Thermopylae and then meeting a man who claimed to have fought beside him!
Terribull I'm glad you persisted - it's wonderful, isn't it?
The Sealwoman's Gift was ultimately disappointing. It could have been so much better. It's a novel based on a true episode of Barbary slavers kidnapping people from Iceland in the 1600's. The Icelandic bits were good but the Algeriers side of the story just wasn't credible. I came away thinking that being a white slave wasn't so bad, lots of scented rosewater and warm sun, jasmine and purple satin.
The time line was also confusing, three years would pass as you turned a page. It's as though Sally Magnusson didn't have enough belief in herself to write a truly good book and so made it rather chick-lit like.
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